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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Eternal life! Humanity will search for it always, and here—here

And we might have lived forever. Nice work!

Eternal life.—Have you any children?

I have.

So, you see, eternal life! If we only thought of birth rather than of death. Life is not short, as long as we can be the cause of life

It’s done! Well, it was only—a wild thought, this living forever. I feel depressed and a little more at ease because it isn’t possible any longer

We are no longer young. Only youth could have burned it—our fear of death. Well done, Kristina.